Afternoon at the Manti temple

 

We took a trip down to Manti so that Phil could attend his friend's sealing. I wanted to go visit my grandparents there, but they were out of town that afternoon. Lacey and I decided to go anyway, to keep Daddy company on the trip, since Daddy was not so excited about making the drive all by himself. Lacey and I got to walk around the temple grounds while Daddy was inside. We got some nice pictures along the way.

3 year anniversary

April 12 was 3 years since we were sealed for time and eternity. It's been a fantastic 3 years. We've been blessed with so much, and continue to be every day.

That Tuesday, I was lying down for a nap in the middle of the afternoon, as I usually do, and I heard Phil try to sneak in. It's pretty much impossible to do, since the place is so small. But I caught him trying to sneak in roses. For the past two years, he's gotten me the number of flowers equal to the number of years we've been married. But this year, he said, the single flowers didn't look pretty, so he got me a dozen. He instructed me to go take a nap while he divided the flowers in to 3s and placed them around the kitchen. He's such a sweetie. I stuck them back together since we didn't really have a vase small enough to hold just three flowers. Look how pretty! The best part of the whole thing was Phil trying to be sneaky. :)

BoBo baptism

At the beginning of April, we had the pleasure of attending the baptism of Lacey's cousin Eli. It was a beautiful ceremony, and it was wonderful to see everyone that was there. It's always wonderful to see these children making good decisions so early in life.

Lacey made her way to the baby seat in the corner as soon as we got there. Silly monkey.

Grandmother and Grandpa Bobo with the grandkids. 

It looks like Lacey's scolding, but I'm pretty sure she's pointing. Either way, it's a cute picture.

Lacey seems to think that she can eat off of anyone's plate. I guess that's because Mommy lets her eat off of her plate. She kept stealing Uncle Ken's grapes.

 Water. And my little cutie.

Lacey had so much fun playing with the kids, and with Grandmother, as you can see.

Random things from the past few months

It's been a while! I've been wanted to update the blog for a while, but just haven't had the time/energy. Work+kid+pregnancy=one tired mommy! So I decided that I just need to buckle down and do it!

Yes, I've started working a few hours from home. I'm editing a textbook that someone wrote for the company that Phil works for. It's challenging, but I'm really enjoying it. It's fun to actually put my education to use, for a little while, anyway.

Phil has finished up his latest semester of class, and we're enjoying some time as a family without school and homework and stuff.

Lacey is just as happy and active as ever. She's learning new things every day, and she loves it so much. She's too darn smart for her own good, that's for sure. She knows her letters, numbers (she counts to 13), shapes, and we're working on colors now. She's so excited and enthusiastic about everything, it's exhausting. She is so sweet and loves everyone she sees. She says "Hello. Goodbye!" and the blows kisses to anyone who passes by when we're playing outside. It's hard to believe that she's turning 2 this Sunday! It's been, and continues to be, such a blessing to be her Mommy.

BoBo baby #2 is growing big and strong inside Mommy, and hasn't caused too many troubles yet. We found out a couple weeks ago that this baby is another girl, and we're so excited for Lacey to have a little sister. She's so good with little babies, and I know that she's going to be Mommy's little helper.

Here's a few fun random pictures from the past few months.

My mom sent me this maternity shirt when I found out I was expecting. Lacey loves to put it on and run around in it. It's a big risque on her, but she's so but. :)

Lacey playing video games. She doesn't do much but make her character jump, but it's cute the way she gets so excited about it. This particular game has Donald Duck and Goofy in it, and she loves to watch Daddy play it.

I just think that this is a cute picture. She's got smoothie all over her face, smoothie with a bit of spinach mixed in with it. It may sound weird, but it's delicious and you can't taste any spinach in it. If you can get past the green color, it's pretty good!

Lacey potty training Perry the platypus. If only she'd potty train herself. Oh well.

Lacey the rock star.

Stay tuned for more! I'm determined to get caught up!

Just a few things

January has been a pretty good month for us. Nothing special, but for the most part we've been healthy and happy. Phil started class again and his workload is not as heavy as last semester. And that's nice. Lacey is getting bigger and better than ever. She's so smart and clever. Here's a picture of her sitting on a stool eating an apple. I know, not exciting, but it illustrates how much of a big girl she's becoming.

Last Monday was pretty eventful. It started with visiting teaching in the morning. Lacey went with me because there were lots of toys and even a little girl just Lacey's age to play with. Then Mommy had an appointment, so Lacey stayed home with a babysitter. Like most children, Lacey goes a little crazy when friends come over and has to put on a show. I think she ran around in circles much of the time. Then that evening, Daddy came home early and played with Lacey for a long time.

In this video, Lacey and Daddy are playing little plastic shape blocks, throwing them in their bucket and saying, "Spike!" For some reason, Lacey thought that this was hilarious and cracked up every time Daddy did it. And then of course there's the moment she sees a camera pointed at her and she says "cheese" and squints her eyes.

She was pretty darn tired after all this excitement. She laid down on the floor and covered up with a blanket. I think she was trying to tell me something. She has NEVER done this before.

So we got her ready for bed and she went and sat in her little cradle basket and read a book. I just thought it was cute.

Proof that Daddy helps with the dishes sometimes. In this case, Lacey also wanted to help, so she got to "dry" the dishes.

And finally, Lacey is going to be a big sister in August! I'm currently 10 weeks along, and, lucky for me, have had very very little sickness.

Merry Christmas!!

I hope everyone had a delightful Christmas Day! We certainly did at my house. It's the first Christmas that Phil and I have had in our own home, and we are incredibly blessed to have family close by to invite into our home to share the spirit of Christmas with us.

We got up pretty close to our usual time on Christmas morning. Lacey looks like she wasn't quite ready for the early morning festivities.


She got lots of cool things in her stocking, like bubbles an socks. She was pretty good at getting the stuff out, too.


Daddy really doesn't look ready for early morning festivities. He got heads for his toothbrush in his stocking. And some other stuff.
Uncle Brad came over to play on Christmas Morning. He looks so glamorous wearing Lacey's star glasses, doesn't he?


We got my whole family together on video chat to open presents together--my parents and other younger brother in South Carolina, my sister and her husband in Alaska, and us and Brad in Utah. It was really nice that we could be together that way for Christmas morning since we're all so far apart.

Brad and the Christmas tree. I wonder if he knows that there's wild animal eating his face... ;)


Oh, there you are, Perry. Lacey loves her Perry doll. In case you don't know, Perry is a platypus featured in Disney Channel's Phineas and Ferb. He's actually a secret agent working to stop the evil shenanigans of Dr. Doofenshmirtz.

Lacey obviously thought that Perry needed some glamming up.


In the afternoon, we had Phil's sister and her family over for dinner and playtime and presents. It was so delightful to have them in our home. Lacey is definitely getting better at sharing her toys. She got a really cool magnetic fishing puzzle thing that all the kids (and adults, I think) thought was pretty neat.
We gave the kids pillow blankets as gifts. They're just regular old blankets that have a pocket sewn on them so that they can be folded up and turned into a pillow. But I guess that they make a good cloak, too, as you can see.


Here we have Lacey playing with her little talking turtle. It tells stories, sings songs, and says its ABCs! And in her hair is one of the bows she got from her Aunt Erin's family.

Lacey loves all of the gifts that she received and we are grateful that our circumstances allow us to give so many gifts as well, to our family and to others. And most of all we are grateful for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, for His life, example, and atoning sacrifice. Merry Christmas, and God bless you!

Thanksgiving

Well, now that Christmas is almost here, I suppose it's time for me to get Thanksgiving over with!

We had an excellent Thanksgiving filled with fun and family. We had dinner at my Uncle Scott's house AND at my sister-in-law's house. Yes, two Thanksgiving dinners. Both were delicious. And thanks again to Scott's family for allowing us to show up rather unexpectedly. You see, we showed up at our original destination and no one was home. So we hopped on over to my Uncle's house just in time for dinner. We got to see Lacey's great-grandparents and Uncle Brad, too. Then we headed back over to the Bobo dinner and got seconds. It was actually a Bobo-Graham dinner (although most of the kids were Oliphants and Edwards). Lacey had so much fun running around with her cousins and friends. We didn't hawk over her this time to make sure she didn't do anything dangerous. So she was probably doing plenty of dangerous things, but she didn't get hurt and we didn't know about them. At one point, she was playing in her cousin's bedroom, and went and peeked in on her, and she saw me and immediately came and shut the door. We stayed out WAY passed her bedtime, but it was worth it to have that time with our family. She was so tired out that she took a four hour nap the day after. That's a pretty intense nap for our little one.

Lacey's cousin Johnnie was having fun with Grandpa's camera. There were lots of pictures of people's midsections... Here's he's taken a picture of Lacey and is showing it to her.

Here I was trying to get a picture of him taking a picture of me, but he just smiled for the camera instead. What a cutie!

Daddy and Lacey reading a story.


Aunt Em gave Lacey a candy cane. Needless to say, Aunt Em was also responsible for cleaning the sticky off the baby.

And then they read a story together. Lacey loves stories! And Aunt Em loves Lacey, so it works out nicely.

Speaking of our little one, she's really not so little anymore. She's pretty big, actually. At her 18 month check-up, she was in the 80th percentile for weight and 85th percentile for height. She talks up a storm, and occasionally there's a coherent word in there. She still sleeps 12 hours at night and takes a 2 to 3 hour nap during the day. She almost knows all the letters of the alphabet (her favorite right now is W), and she loves to help Mommy empty the dishwasher and sweep the floor. She LOVES nursery. She has never even looked back at me when I've taken her in, which is a good thing. I love my little sweetie and I'm so glad she gets to be a part of my life!